Bullet Point Election News: Roger Waters

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Roger Waters of Pink Floyd played the closing act for the three-day Coachella music festival in California Sunday, April 27, 2008.
The act included a large pig balloon similar to ones used by the band in the past.
The underside of the pig balloon had the word "Obama" with a checked box next to it. Other messages on the pig included the phrases “Don’t be led to the slaughter” and "Fear builds walls".
Waters announced his support of Obama previously saying:
"Please God, let's not have this woman (Hillary)! Hillary will want to make her mark and show that she can be just as good as a male president, and she will f**cking invade Iran. Trust me. She voted to declare the Iranian Republican Guard a terrorist organisation! I would buy a whole page in The New York Times and fly Obama's flag. But I would be terribly afraid they'd go, 'this is that pinkosh*tbag who's attacking our President in a time of war'."

The pig balloon which is reported to be as tall as a two-story house and as wide as two school buses, broke free of its lines and floated away after Roger Waters played a version of Pink Floyd’s song “Pigs on the Wing” from their 1977 album “Animals”.
The remnants of the balloon were later found by two families on their driveways in La Quinta, California. The families will share the $10,000 and four life tickets offered as a reward by Coachella festival.